I’m writing this at 10:26pm on Tuesday night. Before I started writing it, I realised I’d approached bedtime as a ‘job to get done’ so I could start this. I realised that bedtime and the impending newsletter were jobs that needed to be done in my head. I approached them both with an efficient mindset, not a loving one.

And that’s not OK, because it’s one less bedtime I will have with my boys that I didn’t make the most of. I know that’s going to happen from time to time, but hopefully, the more I catch it, the more my boys will remember bedtimes with dad with fondness, instead of them fading into obscurity.
 

What moments in your child’s life are you missing because you’re approaching them with the wrong mindset?